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Flutterwave Leads Fight Against Fraud with EFCC Partnership

Fintech Finance

Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, the Chief Compliance Officer, Mr. Mobolaji Bammeke, the Director of the American Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Mr. Christopher Gray, and other senior officials from both the EFCC and the FBI.

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Cybercrime Research Centre Led by Flutterwave to Launch in Nigeria to Combat Internet Crime

The Fintech Times

“This initiative underscores our commitment to creating a fraud-free financial ecosystem and leading the charge in safeguarding transactions across Africa. It will focus on several key areas: Advanced fraud detection and prevention Developing and implementing cutting-edge technologies to detect and prevent financial fraud.

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Don't Panic: The IPA Helps You Navigate the Complex Compliance Landscape

Innovative Payments Association

” yelled the FBI agent on a panel at the IPA Compliance Boot Camp. By the same token, we also had the FBI present on Crypto fraud. While AI is often touted as the next technological wave, the financial services industry has been using it for decades in areas such as fraud detection and credit decisioning.

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Sumsub Improves Crypto Transaction Monitoring With Elliptic Integration

The Fintech Times

Money laundering and fraud are on the rise and according to Sumsub’s Fraud Report 2024 , the crypto industry was in the top five industries with the highest fraud rates in 2024. Recently, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) created its own crypto token to take down criminals.

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Fraud Decisioning Pulls Ahead In A Tight Race

PYMNTS

Companies are getting much better at fraud detection and prevention, partly in response to its rapid spread. The platform’s recent transparency report tells of how TripAdvisor anti-fraud detection stopped roughly 1 million false and misleading reviews from ever being made live. One analysis of more than 1.3

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COVID Crime: What Is Money Muling, and How Can We Fight It?

FICO

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a bulletin warning that this crime is on the rise, and published a Money Mule Awareness Guide to help the public fight money mules. Over the last few months I’ve talked a lot about the convergence of fraud and compliance infrastructure. In April, the U.S. Money Muling Is Here to Stay.

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FI Fraud Decisioning Outthinking Cyberthieves

PYMNTS

With so much highbrow industry chatter about topics like payments fraud detection, it’s good to remember that this is actual crime-fighting. On the FBI’s Cyber Most-Wanted list are nationals of at least a half-dozen countries, some with state-level backing. Check it out.